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Social Problems of Pakistan

and Their SolutionsBy Najmunnisa Siddiqui


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Social Problems of Pakistan

Poverty Illiteracy Terrorism

Food and water crisisPopulation growth Poor health facilities Internal and international migration

Discrimination of Sexdemocracy in shape of dictatorship unloyal leaders


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Foregin debtChild laborDeviant behavior

discourage the rules of law from governmentrepresentativesinflationInjusticeSmuggling Drug abuse


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Illiteracy

Introduction of the problem: Educationis considered as the cheapest defense ofa nation The Constitution of IslamicRepublic of Pakistan says,The state of Pakistan shall removeilliteracy and provide free and compulsorysecondary education within minimumpossible period.


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Contd. Literacy rate: 49.9% educatedpopulace ( Human developmentReport Pakistan) placed at136th position for having just.

The primary completion rate inPakistan, given by Date Centerof UNESCO, is 33.8% infemales and 47.18% in males,which shows that people in the6th largest country of the worldare unable to get the basic

education


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Reason :

Unequal education systemDifferent medium of instruction in Publicand private sectorRegional disparity (standard of educationvaries in different provinces of Pakistan)

In FATA, the literacy rate is deplorableconstituting 29.5% in males and 3% infemales


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Gender discrimination: primary schoolratio of boys & girls which is 10:4respectively.lack of technical educationthe allocation of funds for education arevery low. It is only 1.5 to 2.0 percent of thetotal GDP.Untrained and non professional teachers


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Solution

Govt. should take following measures:Increase education budget

Establish more schools and appointqualified and trained teachers. Technical education must be given to all

the classes.Promote primary education


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Terrorism

Pakistan plays a key and highlyconflicted--role in the global waron terror. Today terrorism isthreatening the very roots andfabric of Pakistans nationhood.More tragically, terrorism inPakistan draws its justification

from the very faith whichprovides the country itsideological bases.


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Reason

The major causes of Terrorism inPakistan are:1- Political Instability2- Economic Conditions3- Standard of Living

4- Religious Extremism


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Solution

The real solution is to kill the root ofTerrorism and systematically change theattitude of those peoples who are involvedin terrorism- Military operations against terrorists arealso very ncessary. Education, Justice, Pour politics can stopthe Terrorism ..


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Contd

Preventing and resolving conflictswith Talibans and other religiousgroups.Strengthening the protection of weak

targets. A fully demarcated border with Afghanistan which will prevent theforeign intrusion in the country.


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The government should enter into seriousnegotiations with Washington on theissues of drone attacks so that our

sovereignty should be preserved as wereserve the right to undertake actions onour own land.

A concrete time-table of withdrawal from Afghanistan needs to be announced bythe U.S led forces


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Water Crisis

We are facing the crisis of waternowadays.The increase in demand due topopulation growth, and infrequentrainfall, is aggravating the situationday by day .Insufficient no. of reservior is also

one of the cause of water crisis.Perpetual silting of water reservoirs,lakes, canals, rivers and waterwaysis one of the major reasons of

shrinking water storage capacity.


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Solution

The problem has now reached a criticaldecision-making stage. There are two obvioussolutions to the problem:

1. Make new water reservoirs to make up for thedepleting capacity of old reservoirs, as well as tocater for increase in demand.

2. Maintain the storage capacity of oldreservoirs. Make new reservoirs only to meet therequirement of additional demand.


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Food Crisis

The worlds financial experts have placedPakistan on a list of 36 countries that facea serious food crisis

it has two sides; one is unavailability ofedibles and second is soaring prices dueto gap in demand and supply of edibles.

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